RECENT PUBLICATIONS 



In Forest Land. By Douglas Malloch. 

 Cloth, gilt top, illustrated in tint, $1.25 a 

 copy. American Lumberman, 315 Dear- 

 born street, Chicago. 



Among recent offerings of the publishers 

 appears a new book of poems by a new 

 author and, very happily, with a new theme. 

 It is "In Forest Land," by Douglas Malloch, 

 and it celebrates in verse for the first time 

 a character rugged and appealing, the "lum- 

 berjack," as the woodsmen is colloquially 

 known. The forest, its beauties, its people 

 and its utilities are the author's all-pervad- 

 ing thought, and into the forest and of the 

 forest he has woven more than a hundred 

 poems whose originality is striking. 



There is nothing obscure about Mr. Mal- 

 leoli's verse. He apparently has written for 

 the great public heart, confident that his 

 field is new. his knowledge exact and his 

 inspiration genuine. When he speaks his 

 faith, he does it simply. When he is hu- 

 morous, it is the humor of good cheer. 

 When he is philosophical, his philosophy is 

 flecked with sunshine just as are the path- 

 ways of his delightful woods. 



It is safe to say that many readers who 

 have not known Douglas Malloch in the 

 past will extend a welcome to him in the 

 future. Here is a young man who has dedi- 

 cated his_ genius and his best efforts to 

 writing of a region in which the public feels 

 an affectionate interes:. 



There are men to whom the forest is a 

 home and an occunation. They come into 

 contact with the outer world but little. But 

 their labors and their environment give 

 them nobility and picturesqueness. These 

 the author of "In Forest Land" has por- 

 trayed with feeling and success. He has 

 given to us a character almost unknown to 

 literature and has put into that character's 

 mouth a delightful philosophy, a quaint hu- 

 mor and simple and yet heroic ideals. Its 

 vivid interest makes "In Forest Land" de- 

 serve to rank at once with the season's best 

 literary offerings. 



The forest, the lumber camp the saw 

 mill, the deck of the lumber schooner, and 

 the river these are the places to which Mr. 

 Malloch has gone in search of his material, 

 and he has given to the world a little vol- 

 ume which will rank among the best books 

 of the year, not merely because of its lit- 

 erary merit, but because it strikes a new 

 note in American poetry. He has brought 

 home to us not only the forest with its 

 peaceful calm and inspiring beauty, but 

 he has taken us into the recesses of the 

 wood and set us down among the swampers 

 and skidders and opened up a mine of in- 

 genuous sentiment. 



Camp Fires in Canadian Rockies Bv 

 William T. Hornaday, Sc. D. With illus- 

 trations and maps. Xew York: Chas. 

 Scribner's Sons. Price, $3 net. 



Two men of very different kinds are com- 

 bined in Dr. William T. Hornaday, whose 

 "Camp Fires in the Canadian Rockies" has 

 just been published. One is the accurate, 

 careful, patient and trained observer of all 

 the phenomena of nature, animate or inani- 

 mate, whose wide knowledge of animals and 

 their habits made him the man best suited 

 for the directorship of the Xew York Zoo- 

 logical Park. The other is the buoyant, 

 breezy, unconventional liver of outdoor life 

 and adventure, with a positive genius as a 

 story-teller, the master of a style of narra- 

 tive as fresh and racy as the winds which 

 blow through the forests and across the 

 snow-clad slopes of the mountains that form 

 the scene of his new book. Pedentary and 

 dry-as-dust facts have never been welcome 

 at Mr. Hornaday's library table, and the re- 

 sult is that they are happily absent from his 

 books. And yet one is subtly conscious that 

 the whole superstructure of his narrative of 

 his experiences, observations and adven- 

 tures, however familiar, light-hearted and 

 even gayly humorous the form may be, 

 rests upon a 'jundation as sound and as 

 true as abundant scientific knowledge can 

 make it. 



In the preface to "Camp Fires in the 

 Canadian Rockies.'" Dr. Hornaday, with his 

 accustomed modesty, declares that his book 

 "is merely a story of recreations with big 

 game, with a few notes on nature." Next, 

 he says, to the necessity growing out of the 

 state of his health, of a strenuous trip into 

 mountain wilds, his chief object was to 

 get into the home of the mountain goat and 

 to learn at first hand something of the 

 strange personality of that remarkable ani- 

 mal. With characteristic generosity, Dr. 

 Hornaday goes on to say that the most 

 valuable result of the trip was the collection 

 of photographs of a live mountain goat se- 

 cured by his campmate. John M. Phillips, of 

 Pittsburg, at risks to life and limb that few 

 photographers would take. Mr. Phillips, 

 however, was no ordinary photographer. 

 "True sportsman, game protector This voca- 

 tion is Pennsylvania Game Commissioner^ . 

 mountaineer, photographer, and genial gen- 

 tleman, all in one" that is Dr. Hornaday's 

 portrait of his companion during the two 

 months which they, with several guides, 

 spent in the mountains of British Columbia. 

 And certainly the collection of photographs 

 which Mr. Phillips brought out of the 



lerness, and which, to the number of 

 more than three score, are used to illustrate 

 Mr. Hornaday's spirited narrative, has 

 never, we believe, been equaled. 



